ITU_FG_SSC_Food_For_Thought_Sekhar_KONDEPUDI_April_15_2013.pdf

Smart Sustainable Cities

Sekhar Kondepudi Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Smart Buildings & Smart Cities

National University of Singapore

E: [email protected]

April 2013

ITU FG SSC

Food for Thought

What is a Smart Sustainable City & What are its Attributes ?

What are the Key Elements that comprise a Smart Sustainable City ?

What are the Foundational Aspects of Smart Sustainable Cities ?

What are the Vertical Infrastructure Elements ?

When broken down into its bulk components, how do the various elements of a smart city best interface with one another ? (ie- transportation with energy, green buildings with urban design etc.)

Should we take a holistic view of a Smart City with all its elements OR can different systems perform on their own without the need to integrate with other systems around them or is it a Hybrid Model ?

What should the Focus of the FG-SSC be in this area of Smart Sustainable Cities

SUSTAINABILITY MOBILITY

RELIABILITY

EFFICIENCY

SECURITY

FLEXIBILITY

LONGEVITY

INTEROPERABILITY

TECHNOLOGY

SCALABILITY

Smart Cities are well managed, integrated physical and digital infrastructures that provide optimal services in a reliable, cost effective, and sustainable manner while maintaining and improving the quality of life for its citizens.

Well Managed Governance

Cost Effective Economy

Sustainable Environment

Quality of Life Society

Physical & Digital Infrastructure Collective Intelligence across both private and public domains including

Public Safety Healthcare Education Mobility

Real Estate Industrial Utilities Water, Waste & Air

Economy

Employment GDP Market GLocal Viability Investment PPP Value Chain Risk Productivity Innovation Compensation

Governance

Regulatory Compliance Processes Structure Authority Transparency Communication Dialog Policies Standards Citizen Services

Environment

Sustainable Renewable Land Use Bio-Diversity Water / Air Waste Workplace

Society

People Culture Social Networks Tech Savvy Demographics Quality of Life User Experiences Equal Access End Consumers Community Needs The City as a

Database

Real Estate Industrial Utilities

Water, Waste & Air ICT Safety

Healthcare Education Mobility

Real Estate Industrial Utilities

Water, Waste & Air ICT

Safety Healthcare Education

Mobility

Some of these infrastructure verticals are out of scope for the FG-SSC

Ex. Healthcare, Safety , Education are out of scope

What additional verticals should we consider that are in scope of the FG SSC?

solutions that turn buildings into living organisms: networked, intelligent, sensitive and adaptable

synergies between energy efficiency, comfort and safety and security .

Building as a Network Integration of Multiple Technologies (HVAC, Lighting, Plug Loads, Fire, Safety, Mobility, Renewable, Storage, Materials, IAQ etc)

Software Efficiency, Automation & Control , Analytics & (Big ?) Data Management

Integration with Smart Grid

Distributed Energy

Coexist with Productivity, Efficiency, CSR, Sustainability and GHG reduction goals

Real Estate & Buildings

Data Interoperability

Sustainable Production

Zero Emissions

Plant Optimization

Networked Sensors

Cloud Computing

Intelligent & Integrated Processes

Factories of the Future

Industrial & Mfg

Smart Grid Generation / Distribution

Smart Meters Measurement & Integration of smart capabilities

Wireless Communications

Analytics & Policies

Decentralized and Co-generation

Load Balancing

Increased Efficiency

Communications networks utility-wide voice and data communications networks and services

Intelligent utility network

Utilities - Electricity

& Gas

Smart Water

New Distribution Approaches for Stable and Continuous Water Supply

New Water Purification Technologies

Water Treatment / Re-Use / Re-Cycle

Wireless Sensors / Smart Metering for Optimal Usage / Analysis

Smart Air

Pollution Sensors Outdoor Air Quality

Waste Management

Sensors to detect toxicity

Improving Efficiency of Waste Collection

Auto Sorting / Tracking - Reuse & Recycling

Bio-Medical Waste

Waste, Water & Air Mgmt

Intelligent Transportation Technologies in the Age of Smart Cities:

Traffic Management Monitoring & Routing

Smart Charging

Intelligent Public Transit

Real Time Travel Information

Transit signal priority

Centralized fleet vehicle management

Real Time Linkage to Emissions, Traffic Patterns, Reduced Fuel Consumption

Mobility

The multiple systems within a city can be thought of as sub-

networks of a larger network ie System of Systems or a network of networks

When these sub-systems are integrated with one another,

they can be thought of as the Internet of Things (IoT) for cities.

All of these systems comprise of sub-systems, components

& devices which have nodes, end points and behave like a

network in terms of their end use characteristics and

interactivity with other nodes.

This is completely analogous to an IT or Data

Communications network

ICT is at the CORE acting as the NERVE CENTER

Goal is to achieve an economically sustainable urban environment without sacrificing comfort and convenience / quality of life of citizenry.

ICT is the great equalizer (human to human, human to machine and machine to machine) to connect a variety of everyday living services to public infrastructures, such as utilities, mobility and water.

A smart sustainable city will be constantly tuning itself, honing the individual efficiencies of the different vertical infrastructure operations such as real estate, industry, utilities (energy), water, waste and mobility.

However to achieve a higher order of optimization, these very seemingly independent vertical infrastructure silos will need to coordinate with each other in order to making living more convenient and comfortable while at the same time balancing the fragile environment.

Reduced Usage Costs

Consumers can reduce costs by having individual (distributed) in-situ power micro-generation of power. The savings can be enhanced further if that self generated electric power is used to purify recycled water, thereby reducing water usage costs.

Increased Comfort

Tying in airline reservations and or work appointment settings with the environmental comfort settings at home ie making sure that the home systems are set up to be to my preferred settings by tying in my airline and calendar settings

Improved Convenience

For example, if one can combine a doctors or a health checkup appointment with mobility and ensuring that the appropriate recent medical / health info from the home healthcare system is uploaded to the doctors medical information system with the most recent data. ie. How to get to my destination (transport) at a given time for a given purpose and ensuring that the latest information is available in real time.

Energy & Water

A smart system which coordinates water availability and price with the use of energy and power for example, when actual fresh water is in low supply, making real time decisions to use recycled water OR water from a desalination plant ( all of which use power ).

Further, the choice of which energy source (fossil, solar, hydro etc) to use coupled to which water source to use will help the overall sustainability equation to be better maintained.

Such optimization / smart decisions can reduce water treatment costs, make power consumption more efficient, and realize a variety of other synergistic effects

Energy & Mobility

Today there is a move towards EVs since they are more environmentally friendly. As more EVs come about, an energy / electric charging infrastructure will need to be established.

By coordinating the location, number of EVs in line, availability of power at a given charging station, the time variance in price of electricity, with traffic patterns and the actual location of an EV all in real time; the driver of any given EV can make an optimal decision where and when to charge his/her vehicle.

Foundational Aspects

Establish the Foundational Aspects as they relate to the Digital & Physical Infrastructure elements (Economy, Social, Environmental and Governance) include models for this such a PPP (Public-Private Partnerships) for successful city administration & business models.

Vertical Infrastructure Areas

Focus on the various vertical digital & physical infrastructure components including technology details which make up a smart sustainable city (Buildings, Utilities, Water, etc).

Validate these areas against the mandate of the FG

Discuss potential new vertical areas as needed for example, should we look at Training (not Education)

Use Case Scenarios

Identify a series of use case scenarios which establish the interconnected nature of the Smart Sustainable City to better establish the different touch points between the different vertical infrastructures.

Include the touch points between the Verticals AND the Foundational Aspects as well.

Sekhar Kondepudi Ph.D.

Smart Buildings & Smart Cities

National University of Singapore

E: [email protected]

Video Surveillance

Video Analytics

Workflow

Situational Awareness

Enhanced Emergency Systems

Natural Disasters

Intra-Agency Communications

Safety & Security

Smart Hospitals

Gaining real-time line of sight and responses to individualized health information.

Smart Communications Patient to Clinician

Intelligent & Efficient Public Health

Real Time Healthcare including Analytics

Privacy and protection of patient information

Home & Remote HealthCare incl. Monitoring

Health Waste Management

Electronic Records Management

Healthcare

Flexible learning in an interactive earning environment

Delivering education through different devices from televisions to ipods to mobile phones to netbooks beyond our schools and into homes

Accessing world class digital content online

Adaptive learning programs and learning portfolios

Collaborative technologies and digital learning resources

A digital learning portfolio including online learning & testing that gives students, teachers and parents an integrated view

MOOCs

Education

Mobility & Healthcare

At present, mobility and healthcare agencies use different Internet systems to support reservations. In addition, a third system related to medical ( health) data operates very independently.

In a smart city, however, all of these systems can be coordinated / interlinked thereby enabling both healthcare data, appointment scheduling and transportation scheduling via a one-stop service.